In this post I will continue to discuss about the IEEE CloudCom conference that I have started in the previous post. Standardisation efforts The standardisation of the cloud is still a hot topic, mainly because it should avoid the vendor lock-in and it should provide a solid foundation for cloud interoperability. However, this challenge can be divided in two sub-challenges: The number of SDOs trying each other to impose its own standard: When the IEEE chairman presented us the SDOs involved in cloud standards, we saw a slide with three columns of SDOs, each one pushing its own. In addition (…)
This week I attended the 3rd IEEE International conference on cloud computing Technology and science for presenting our paper about the Elastic Queuing Service. This offers me a new opportunity to give you an overview of hot topics and trends from this conference. As usual I will only give you an overview of the talks I had the chance to attend, since there was a lot of parallel tracks. MapReduce in the cloud This is clearly a hot topic in the community, there was a special MapReduce track and even a lot of papers distributed among the other tracks and (…)
In this post we have invited Charles Bonneau, software architect & Eclipse addict at Euranova. Charles will share his feedback from EclipseCon EU 2011. Welcome Charles ! First time @EclipseCone This year was my first attend at EclipseCon Europe, formerly known as Eclipse Summit Europe. I really enjoyed the time in Ludwigsburg, Germany. I’m mostly focused on RCPs and modeling, so my vision of the conference may be a bit subjective. What hit me first was the enthusiasm of the public, people from all around Europe, and further, meeting each other and learning about the stuff that is going on in (…)
The R&D Department has been very active this academical year 2010-2011 and has organized research activities in association with many academic organizations such as the Université Libre the Bruxelles (ULB-Belgium), the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCl-Belgium) and the University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia). These collaborations have taken the form of students Master Theses and Master internships. In total, four Master Theses have been conducted, with 2 students from the ULB and 2 students from the UCl, along with 3 internships with 2 students from the ULB and 1 student from the enginnering faculty of Tunis. Here is a summary (…)
This year we published a paper in the industrial track of ER 2011 [1], the annual conference on conceptual modeling research. In this context I spent a couple of days in Brussels at the conference. This gives me the opportunity to share with you an (high level) overview of the trends in this area. Please, notice that this post is only a summary of the discussions I saw and talks I had the chance to see. Ontology and design There was a significant number of papers presenting the usage of ontologies for having a more meaningful and accurate design. There (…)
